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Award-winning musician Jake Baxendale will lead a South Island ensemble in a night of "Gardening Music" for Dunedin Jazz Club this Saturday night, at Hanover Hall. Photo: supplied Dunedin Jazz Club launches its Autumn Season of shows this weekend with a unique musical evening featuring award-winning saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale (Wellington) and an all-star South Island band.

A local sea lion pup in moult — changing from the brown baby coat to a sleek silver look. Photo: Katy Moanamika Winter is coming, and wildlife is on the move.

Ted Brown’s grandson Mark Howie (left) presents the Ted Brown Memorial Trophy to 2024 winner Simon Walker. PHOTO: PHIL COAKES It was a good day on Saturday for the Caversham Harrier & Athletic Club’s Ted Brown Memorial 1500m and associated races at Kaikorai Valley College.

Community Fruit Harvest Otepoti will celebrate a very successful picking season by hosting a Dunedin Harvest Festival this weekend.

Ecotago scientist Andrew Innes sets up a microscope to show youngsters the tiny creatures living in the water of Tomahawk Lagoon. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The inaugural stormwater community day at Tomahawk Lagoon attracted more than 100 people, keen to learn about water and environmental science.

PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON Welcoming people to a curious combination of cut and paste poetry, cross stitch and made-up magazines behind a fake picket fence is poet Liz Breslin.

"BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS AND STRAUSS"  Dunedin Symphony Orchestra Dunedin Town Hall Saturday, April 20   The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra responded beautifully to the steady hand of distinguished visiting conductor Matthias Bamert with a stirring performance of works by three great German composers on Saturday night.

University of Otago 2024 Caroline Plummer Fellow in community dance Marcela Giesche is hoping to bring together 24 people to participate in a collaborative performance. Photo: Simon Henderson A series of events next week will celebrate International Dance Day, Monday, April 29.

At its annual meeting this month, Louise Ardley was re-elected as president of the Otago Lily Society.

Since 1970, April 22 has been designated Earth Day.

On OAR FM programme Back In My Day are Yuna Barbenel (left) and Jade Griffin, with guest Neil Macandrew. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The generation gap closed a smidge over the past fortnight.

The proposed Otago inland port has made it into the news lately.

Simon Henderson looks at highlights from the West Harbour Community Board.

Dunedin Wildlife Hospital volunteers are (from left) Nethmini Haththotuwa and Becks Harris pitching in during a working bee to make banners for the decoration of No Name Alley for the Wild About Dunedin market event on April 27, part of the Wild Dunedin Festival. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The return of this year’s Wild Dunedin Festival No Name Alley market event is breathing new life into an old Bond Quarter laneway.

The Hereweka Harbour Cone Trust will lead an inaugural walk on the newly formed Portobello-Hereweka marked loop track this Sunday.

Recycling options were discussed at the latest Otago Peninsula Community Board meeting. PHOTO: ALLIED PRESS FILES A lively discussion of refuse and recycling services on the peninsula dominated the public forum of last Thursday’s Otago Peninsula Community Board meeting at Portobello.

Former railway engineer and trainer Kevin Phillips is concerned about the potential for accidents on the Taieri Gorge Railway. PHOTO: SIMON HENDERSON Mosgiel resident Kevin Phillips has raised safety concerns about Dunedin’s tourist trains despite being a train enthusiast.

Simon Henderson looks at highlights from the Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board.

"Persona" curator Jim Geddes in the gallery of portraits. To his left is an Alan Pearson portrait of Sam Neill gifted by the actor and to the right is a self-portrait by Nigel Brown (2003, oil on linen, gifted by the artist and Sue McLaughlin in 2016). Photos: supplied Spanning 150 years, the portraits now hanging in the Eastern Southland Gallery highlight not only the eclectic nature of its collection but also the generosity of benefactors over the past 40 years, curator Jim Geddes tells Rebecca Fox.

Shiny from every angle, by Samantha Cheng "Maximum Potential NOW", Samantha Cheng, Matt Joils and Sophie Sutherland (Blue Oyster Art Project Space) "Maximum Potential NOW" is a bright and humorous critical reflection on experienced realities of consumer capitalism in daily life.